Adventure Magazine, May 20, 1923

# Catalog Note

This May 1923 issue of Adventure magazine contains fiction emphasizing exotic locales and action. "The Quest of the Blood-Red Pearls," a complete novelette by Merlin Moore Taylor, opens with protagonist Allen Stuart, a penniless adventurer in Sydney, approached by a mysterious stranger who knows intimate details of Stuart's recent failed salvage expedition. The stranger promises an opportunity and directs Stuart to meet someone at a city address. Other featured stories include "The Water Wizard" by J. Allan Dunn (South Seas adventure involving white and black magic) and "The Trimmer" by W. Townend (seafaring tale of a fireman). The issue also includes "Red Autumn," part four of Hugh Pendexter's serial set on the Upper Missouri, and diverse shorter works covering locations from New Guinea to Madagascar to Montana, alongside regular departments on practical matters like mining, aviation, and fishing.